SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:45
Volviéndose luego, huyeron hacia el desierto, a la peña de Rimón, y de ellos rebuscaron cinco mil hombres en los caminos; y fueron siguiéndolos hasta Gidom, y mataron de ellos otros dos mil hombres.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 20:45
Verse 45. Unto the rock of Rimmon] This was some strong place, but where situated is not known. Here they maintained themselves four months, and it was by these alone that the tribe of Benjamin was preserved from utter extermination. See the following chapter. IT is scarcely possible to imagine any thing more horrid than the indiscriminate and relentless slaughter of both innocent and guilty mentioned in this chapter. The crime of the men of Gibeah was great, but there was no adequate cause for this relentless extermination of a whole tribe. There was neither justice nor judgment in this case; they were on all sides brutal, cruel, and ferocious: and no wonder; there was no king in Israel-no effective civil government, and every man did what was right in his own eyes. There was no proper leader; no man that had authority and influence to repress the disorderly workings of the pell-mell mob.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 45. And they turned and fled toward the wilderness, unto the rock of Rimmon , etc.] Which signifies pomegranate; perhaps it was in the form of one, and may be the same as in ( 1 Samuel 14:2) where Saul is said to be under a pomegranate tree, or under Rimmon, the rock Rimmon, for that is said to be near Gibeah, as this was. There was a village in the times of Jerom called Remmon, fifteen miles from Jerusalem to the north f434 , but could not be near this rock to have its name from thence; hither the rest of the army fled for shelter: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men ; who were scattered one from another, and as they were found in the highways, and picked up, they were slain one after another, just as ears of corn are gleaned one by one, after the harvest is got in, or as grapes in single berries, after the vintage is over: and pursued hard after them unto Gidom ; which perhaps had its name from the cutting off of the Benjaminites there: and slew two thousand men of them ; that is, 2000 more besides the before mentioned.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The tribe of Benjamin nearly extirpated.
--The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, an their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they forme their resolves with too much haste and self-confidence. The eterna ruin of souls will be worse, and more fearful, than these desolation of a tribe __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויפנו 6437 וינסו 5127 המדברה 4057 אל 413 סלע 5553 הרמון 7417 ויעללהו 5953 במסלות 4546 חמשׁת 2568 אלפים 505 אישׁ 376 וידביקו 1692 אחריו 310 עד 5704 גדעם 1440 ויכו 5221 ממנו 4480 אלפים 505 אישׁ׃ 376
